Nexgen Innovation Consulting April 2025 - What's New


Dear All,

As someone committed to elevating the practice of project sponsorship, I am excited to share some new resources designed to support project sponsors like you on your journey to delivering more successful change and transformation initiatives.

💡 If you are a current or aspiring project sponsor, this will help you save time, reduce risk, and strengthen your ability to deliver strategic outcomes through your projects.

Our Signature Offer: SponsorMAX Project Sponsorship Accelerator

SponsorMAX® is more than a masterclass, it is a comprehensive, structured accelerator designed specifically for executive project sponsors. If you are sponsoring critical change or transformation initiatives, this offer equips you with the clarity, structure, and support to lead with strategic impact.

It includes:

✔️ The Sponsor Scorecard – shows how you measure up against high-performance indicators
✔️ A self-paced online masterclass covering the sponsor’s role, responsibilities, and good practices
✔️ The SponsorACTION® Framework – a practical roadmap designed to help sponsors take high-impact actions to drive project success
✔️ On-demand, in-context project support and 1:1 guidance from a transformation expert
✔️ Optional digital playbook tailored to your organisation to ensure consistent, scalable sponsor capability

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What’s New on Our Website

🔎 Are you a reactive, supportive or strategic sponsor?

Take our new SponsorACTION Assessment to reveal your sponsorship style.

It only takes a few minutes and gives you personalised insights to help you elevate your impact and move toward more effective sponsorship.

🔎 Free Templates

We have launched a brand-new free template section on our website, where you can now download high-impact templates to strengthen your project sponsorship practice.

These are the tools we use with executive clients and in my advisory work.

Introducing our New Referral Programme

We believe that strong sponsorship drives stronger outcomes — and we know that many of you work with peers and colleagues who would benefit from becoming more confident and capable sponsors.

That’s why we have launched our Referral Programme.

Here is how it works:

Refer a colleague or executive contact to SponsorMAX®. If they enrol in the masterclass or book a Sponsor Workshop, you will receive a referral fee as a thank-you for helping us expand the reach of effective sponsorship.

This is a great way to share something valuable with your network and be rewarded for it.

📩 To refer someone, simply reply to this email or send their name and email to muriel.barre@nexgeninnovationconsulting.com
💬 Or, book a quick call with me to discuss the details.

Let’s work together to build a stronger community of strategic sponsors.

Thank you for your continued support.

Warm regards,
Muriel Barre
Founder, Nexgen Innovation Consulting

www.nexgeninnovationconsulting.com

Nexgen Innovation Consulting

I help organisations to optimise change delivery and capabilities for superior execution and value creation.​

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